I have Hardy 8.04 LTS now running successfully on an ancient AMD Asus
motherboard with a ATI Rage128 Ultra displaying on a reall multisync iiyama
(that Windoze always detects).
As above the ATI card was NOT detected properly by the new hardware detection
programme and defaulted to the rather useless 800x640 - most dialogue boxes in
fwbuilder etc are actually bigger than this and the bottom of some boxes were
inaccessible!. Doh!
However by entering the following paragraphs in xorg.conf it fixed it !
:-) Now i have all sorts of settings.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Boardname "ATI Rage Ultra"
Busid "PCI:1:5:0"
Driver "r128"
Vendorname "ATI"
Screen 0
Option "MergedFB" "off"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Horizsync 30.0-81.0
Vertrefresh 56.0-76.0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
Not sure if it was the card driver spec or the monitor declaration but it does
show that xorg.conf still does effect the way X windows configures itself.
Just thought you guys might like to know...
R
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf that fixed old ATI Rage128 graphics"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20958263/xorg.conf
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